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City of St. George to move new power substation after dinosaur fossil discovery

ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) — A dinosaur excavation site in St. George has been saved from impending extinction.

The City of St. George has agreed to move a new power substation to a different plot of land in the city, preserving an excavation site right across the street from the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site.

St. George City Communications Director David Cordero says both the city and archeologists worked to come to a solution for both sides.

“In some cases, there’s a good guy and a bad guy, but to me, there wasn’t in this case,” Cordero said. “It was just two groups of people trying to figure out the best solution, and I think that’s what we came to.”

Before the announcement, volunteers were rushing to the site to excavate as many fossils from the site before construction began.

Per its website, the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site opened in 2005 and has served over 900,000 visitors since it’s opening. It is also home to the oldest Jurassic dinosaur site in Utah.

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